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No. 269,746. Patented Deo. 26, 1882.

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UNrTa STATES PATENT FFICE.

HENRY PQTYLER, OF SPRINGFIELD, MASS., ASSIGNOR O F THREE-FOURTHS TO ANDREW TITUS AND SARAH A. ATWOOD, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

MOP-HEAD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 269,746, dated December 2.6, 1882.

Application filed May 25, 1882. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern v Beit known that l, HENRY P. TYLER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Springlield, in the county of Hampden and State of Massachusetts, have invented new and useful Improvements in Mop-Heads, of' which the following is a specitiction.

This invention consists in the combination, with a pecuMarly-constructed mop-head, of a io spring-binder in one piece of wire formed to inclose the head, and, by having its spring ends bear on the rear of the head, clamp the cloth between its front part or face andthe wire. The rear of the head is provided with i5 depressions to hold the ends of the binder, and its outside ends with channels or othersimilar means ot' guiding the movement ofthe binder relative to the face of the head, and preventing its displacement from the head.

In the drawings, Figure I is a side view of my improvement in mop-heads. Fig. II is a side view ofthe binder, and Fig. III is a View ot' the back ot' the head.

B is the binder, ot' continuous wire, formed into loops upon each side of the handle O to present springs acting through the ends b b at approximately right angles to the part h.

D is the head proper, attached tothe handle O in any well-known way, and having in its go ends the channels d d.

ff are sockets in the back of head D, to receive the spring ends b b of hinder B. The sockets ff are open at the top to permit the ends b b to be easily inserted or withdrawn,

but deep enough to through their side walls prevent these ends from being displaced through any movement ot' the mop.

In Fig. 1I the hinder B is shown as having the spring-loops start outward from the points 4o a a, leaving the intermediate portions of the wire to form in effect a straight bar, It, with shoulders h' h at right angles thereto, and conforming to the face ofthe head and its two ends.

In uniting hinder and head the spring ends of the loops are pressed aside by the head D until the channels d (l and shoulders of the binder at a a are in a prolongation, when the head is slid upon the binder to inclose the cloth or other material forming the mop between the 5o face ot' the head and the `part h ofthe binder. The spring ends b b are then sprung into position, as shown in Fig. I, in the socketsff, to firmly bind the mop.

The face ot' the head D is grooved, as indi- 55 cated in dotted lines, Fig. I, to ati'ord a larger clamp-surface to the binder than a liat face would, and also .to assist in holding binder andhead together.

The bearing ends b b of the binder are turned 6o in, as seen in Fig. II, to form, with the rest of the loops, continuous surfaces leading tothe mop-bearing portion h, and thus oli'er no ohstacle against which the cloth can catch in placing it.

By these means a strong and easily-operated mop-head is formed in only two parts.

Now, having described my invention, what I claim is- The improved mop-head, consisting ot' the 7o binder B, of one piece of spring wire, l'ormed to inclose the head' D and-hear upon all ot' its sides in the same plane, in combination with the head D, provided with the end guides or channels, d d, and socketsff, substantially as v and for the purpose shown and described.

HENRY l. TYLER. Witnesses:

R. F. HYDE,

WM. H. UHAPIN. 

